A profound shift is happening in the way enterprises approach people management. Human Resource departments are realizing that traditional HR practices don’t support Agile teams and the needs of today’s rapidly changing business environments. To bridge this gap, Agile HR Explorer provides learners with the guidance needed to align HR practices with the SAFe transformation and their Agile teams.
This one-day introductory course is designed for HR professionals and leaders in a Lean-Agile environment to gain a high‐level understanding of Agile methodology and its influence on Human Resources. In Agile HR Explorer, learners will explore the new world of work and learn why Agile is instrumental in creating more stable, responsive, and successful organizations.
Option to pursue certification from Just Learning Solutions
Accolades:
Certified Agile HR Explorer (AHRE) – certificate and digital badge from Just Leading Solutions
What people say about Agile HR Explorer
“I was blown away by how interactive a virtual course could be. JLS has put together an online experience that is unlike any other I’ve ever seen. Fabiola is so knowledgeable and passionate on the topic of Agile HR. This was the most informative online course I’ve ever taken.”
Applying Lean-Agile Practices in the Public Sector with SAFe
More government agencies are adopting Lean-Agile practices to generate better results for stakeholders, including government and military personnel, contractors, and civilians. But how do you overcome legacy governance, contracting, and organizational barriers? How do you adapt private sector success patterns to the government context to deliver value faster?
In the SAFe® for Government course, you’ll learn how to apply Lean-Agile and SAFe practices in a government organization so you can deliver projects with speed and quality. Improve collaboration with teams and stakeholders, mitigate risk, and efficiently use taxpayer money.
Attendees learn:
How to apply Lean, Agile, and DevOps principles and practices in traditional government organizations and cultures
How to adapt technology strategy, budgeting and forecasting, acquisition, compliance, and governance practices to flow-based practices using emerging government guidelines
How to organize government programs into Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and execute in program increments (PIs), even in remote environments with distributed teams
How to build an action plan to begin or accelerate a SAFe implementation in your program or agency
SAFe® for Government answers the questions:
What are specific leadership behaviors that can drive successful organizational change in government?
How do I build high-performing, multi-vendor teams and ARTs?
How do I manage contracts and acquisition/procurement using Agile principles and practices?
How can I coordinate Agile at scale in a government and multi-vendor environment?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio™ access to help prepare you to take the certification exam, claim their digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
One-year membership to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation
Member discussion forms to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
SAFe for Government certification exam
What people say about SAFe® for Government
“A good course that helped fill in all of the cracks (and gaping holes) in my practical knowledge of Agile and SAFe.”
What people say about SAFe for Government
“Great resources for a revolutionary way to do government.”
What people say about SAFe for Government
“SAFe is the example to do Agile projects and deliver value to the customer.”
Advancing Scrum Master Servant Leadership with SAFe
Our new offering for Scrum Masters to advance their skills and achieve certification is Advanced Scrum Master; available on October 22, 2024. The SAFe Advanced Scrum Master class (SASM) will begin sunsetting on December 19, 2024 and become completely unavailable on February 27, 2025.
As a practicing scrum master in a SAFe organization, you have the tactical skills to coach Agile teams to deliver business value. Build on that solid foundation in the SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course and discover how to facilitate success for Agile teams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and the organization. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
Take your leadership skills to the next level. The SAFe® Advanced Scrum Mastercourse will give you the tools to improve your coaching and facilitation skills, avoid common missteps, and encourage relentless improvement. You’ll learn how to apply Lean, Kanban, DevOps, and SAFe principles to improve team and business outcomes. You’ll up-level your facilitation skills for key Agile and SAFe events, whether they’re in person or across teams and time zones. And you’ll discover how communities of practice can support continuous improvement.
Attendees learn:
How to apply SAFe principles to facilitate, enable, and coach in a multi-team environment
How to adopt scalable engineering practices, Kanban, DevOps, and Agile architecture to optimize flow
How to advance your facilitation skills for ART and team event planning, execution, and delivering end-to-end value
How to build communities of practice to support high-performing teams and ART efficiency
How to lead distributed teams effectively in remote environments
SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master answers the questions:
What’s the next step in my learning as a SAFe Scrum Master?
How can I improve my coaching and facilitation skills to support my team?
What are common anti-patterns to avoid when encouraging relentless improvement at scale?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help prepare you to take the certification exam, claim their digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Team Event Facilitator Guides
Online collaboration templates for all SAFe team events
Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI Planning
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification exam
Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
What people say about SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master
“Good content and great training for the aspirants who are moving towards an Agile Coach from a Scrum Master.”
What people say about SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
“I liked the team assignments and interactions in our training group the most.”
Earn your SAFe® Practitioner Certification and establish team agility
What does it mean to be part of an Agile team on an Agile Release Train (ART) that delivers value to customers? SAFe® for Teams covers the tactical skills to be a high-performing member of an ART. The course also gives you the guidance and tools to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams. Get the most out of your learning experience by taking it in context with your team and other teams on your ART.
SAFe for Teams will teach you how to plan and execute work, how to apply Scaled Agile Framework® and Agile principles, and how to continuously improve. Taking Scaled Agile Framework® for Teams gives your team the collective knowledge to collaborate effectively, do the best possible work, and hit the ground running before your next planning event.
Attendees learn:
Your role on the team and your team’s role on the ART
How to apply SAFe principles to scale Lean-Agile delivery
How to plan and execute iterations and PIs
How to continuously improve the ART
SAFe® for Teams answers the questions:
How does an Agile team function inside of an ART?
How do we as an Agile team plan and execute iterations and the PI?
How do we work with other teams on the ART to effectively deliver value?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help prepare you to take the certification exam, claim their digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
One-year access to SAFe® Studio with your first class attendance
Access to the latest Framework guidance
Member discussion forums to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe Framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
SAFe® 6.0 Practitioner certification exam
What people say about SAFe® for Teams
“I really enjoyed the course. It’s changed my perception on ways of working for the better.”
What people say about SAFe for Teams
“The course provided me with invaluable knowledge to excel in my day-to-day job activities.”
What people say about SAFe for Teams
“I loved every single minute of it. Outstanding.”
What people say about SAFe for Teams
“I found the course to be very helpful and interesting, I can see and understand the need for SAFe after taking this course.”
What people say about SAFe for Teams
“This curriculum and training program were very well organized for those already knowledgeable and practicing Agile, as well as beginners.”
Delivering Value through Effective Planning Interval Execution
What skills do you need to deliver value in an Agile enterprise? The SAFe® Product Owner and SAFe® Product Manager (POPM) course covers the tactical responsibilities of these roles in the Agile Release Train (ART). The course and resulting certification give you the guidance and tools to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
Learn how product owners and product managers should work together to achieve the best possible customer and business outcomes. The SAFe POPM course will teach you how to adopt a customer-centric approach to building products, using the Scaled Agile Framework® to deliver more value, faster. Topics covered in this course include the daily role of POs and PMs; collaborating with engineering teams and business stakeholders; how to write epics, features, and stories; and how to design, prioritize, build, test, and deliver products with increased productivity and higher quality.
Attendees learn:
How to perform the role of a PO and a PM on a daily basis
How to put the customer at the center of your design, build, and test process
How to prepare for and lead PI Planning
How to decompose Epics to Features and Features to Stories
How to collaborate with Agile teams to forecast work
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Access to the latest Framework guidance
Product Management Video playlist and customer research tools to support product owners in their role
Member discussion forums to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe Framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
Delivering valuable solutions faster doesn’t involve just engineers developing software. It involves introducing a shared DevOps mindset among all the people who define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven products.
The SAFe® DevOps course helps people in technical, non-technical, and leadership roles optimize their development value stream from end to end. Take this course with your entire cross-functional team to map your current value stream from concept to cash. Design a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that’s relevant to your business. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
SAFe® DevOps Attendees learn:
How to incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline
How to integrate continuous exploration, integration, and deployment, and release value to end users on demand
How to design and implement an actionable DevOps transformation plan tailored to your organization
How to evaluate and improve your current state using tools like the DevOps Health Radar and Transformation Canvas
SAFe® DevOps answers the questions:
What is DevOps and how does it enable strategic business objectives?
What are the mindset, culture, and technical practices to successfully define, build, test, deploy, and release?
How do I use value stream mapping to measure flow and spot bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Value Stream Mapping workshop
Member discussion forums to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe Framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
SAFe DevOps certification exam
What people say about SAFe DevOps
“Great course and useful for my job.”
What people say about SAFe DevOps
“It’s [a] very good course and [explains how] teams can deliver features fast to business users or end users.”
Implementing SAFe® offers attendees the broadest level of insight into each layer of a SAFe implementation. This course and resulting certification will help you understand the roles of each person in a SAFe organization and then plan and guide a SAFe transformation. It’s also the first step toward becoming a certified SAFe Practice Consultant.
You’ll learn how to identify value streams, launch agile release trains, optimize flow, and apply OKRs to Strategic Themes that define the targeted outcomes for the SAFe transformation. You’ll also practice the principles of Agile product management and product delivery. If you’re looking for a comprehensive and practical understanding of how to help an organization achieve business agility effectively, Implementing SAFe® is the right course for you.
Attendees learn:
How to coach a SAFe transformation
How to launch Agile Release Trains
How to Organize around Value Streams
How to build solutions with Agile Product Delivery
How to empower a Lean portfolio
How to understand each role within a SAFe implementation
Implementing SAFe® answers the questions:
How do I plan and coach a SAFe transformation?
How can I demonstrate your expertise in and promote business agility?
How do I build successful solutions using Agile product management principles and skills?
Languages available:
Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Access to the latest Framework Guidance
All the materials that you need to get started as a SAFe Trainer including complete trainer guidance and online enablement
Downloadable toolkits to help you prepare, facilitate and take action from key SAFe activities like Organizing Around Value
Member discussion forums to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe Framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) Certification Exam
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“It was a very qualitative, successful training! I had some fears upfront about the ‘online’ formula but that didn’t bother me after all!”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“Terrific and challenging course that provides all the theoretical and practical knowledge required to build mastery in this domain. Delighted to join the club of SPCs.”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“Enjoyed the course and the learning journey! Refreshed a lot of knowledge on agile development and added a lot of knowledge of its scaling potential. I am eager to apply my knowledge!”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“I loved this class. Highly recommended to progress in your journey.”
Learn how SAFe delivers business agility and earn your SAFe® Agilist certification
New to the Scaled Agile Framework®? Leading SAFe® offers an introduction to the foundations of SAFe and provides the principles and practices to confidently drive your Lean-Agile transformation. The course and resulting certification equip you with the guidance and tools to build a culture of resiliency and a shared language that engages employees and focuses on customers so that organizations can work with agility at scale.
Take a Leading SAFe course to discover how companies can build business agility, and how to make SAFe work inside your organization. You’ll come away with an understanding of how to align your entire organization around the same clear objectives, and how to improve the flow of value and work from strategy to delivery. You’ll learn what makes companies more customer-centric and how to run key SAFe alignment and planning events, like PI planning.
Attendees learn:
How to realize the benefits of SAFe, including:
How to establish Team and Technical Agility and organize around the flow of value
How to align massive organizations around clear, common objectives
How to participate successfully in critical SAFe events, such as PI Planning
How to adopt a customer-centric mindset
Leading SAFe® answers the questions:
What is SAFe?
What is business agility and how does SAFe support it?
How does an organization get started with the Scaled Agile Framework®?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
One-year access to SAFe® Studio with your first class attendance
Access to the latest Framework Guidance
Member discussion forums to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe Framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
SAFe Agilist certification exam
What people say about Leading SAFe
“Very good course to follow the process for an organization or to apply to any of the domains or areas. Enjoyed the training with good case study and scenarios.”
What people say about Leading SAFe
“Great to get an overview of the fundamentals of SAFe and to learn by practical exercises.”
What people say about Leading SAFe
“It covers a good range of the necessary foundations for embracing an Agile mindset and the tools necessary for implementing SAFe at scale. I’m really happy that it also embraces many of the modern philosophies and theories.”
What people say about Leading SAFe
“Nice journey through this powerful framework. I’d love to apply it in my current work.”
SAFe is all about delivering incremental value to customers in the most effective way. Measuring and improving flow, therefore, needs to be a top priority for every lean-agile organization.
When:
October 11, 2022, 9:00 am – October 11, 2022, 10:00 am
Where:
Zoom
Who:
Agile Coach, Business Analyst, Product Owner, Scrum Master
SAFe is all about delivering incremental value to customers in the most effective way. Measuring and improving flow, therefore, needs to be a top priority for every lean-agile organization. With Agile Hive Cloud 6.0, implementing SAFe in Jira and keeping track of all six flow metrics is as easy as it can be. Let us show you how to simplify and scale your SAFe transformation with the tools you already know.
Join Kurt Jager of Kegon and Jan Kuntscher and Karl Baumgarten fo Seibert Media for an interactive discussion.
Speakers
Karl Baumgarten
Sales Lead Agile Hive (Seibert Media)
Karl Baumgarten has been an Atlassian Consultant at Seibert Media since 2019. As a certified SAFe (Scaling Agile Framework) Program Consultant, he is especially passionate about enabling agile development methods at Enterprise scale.
Kurt Jäeger
Management Consultant (Kegon)
Kurt Jäger has been working as a software engineer in various software product houses for 40 years. More than ten years as a developer, architect, project manager, team leader, and product manager at Software AG. Then another decade as development manager at TONBELLER AG, in this role he was also responsible for the product management team. From 2008-2010 he introduced agile methods based on SCRUM. As a business unit manager and agile coach, he helped customers of andrena objects AG to become agile. Since October 2013, he has been an agile management consultant and partner of KEGON AG. He has been a certified Scrum Master since 2018 certified SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE) and since October 2020 SAFe® Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT).
Jan Kuntscher
Title (Seibert Media)
Jan Kuntscher has been working in the software industry since 2010. For several years he has created beautiful and inspiring levels as a level designer at Ubisoft. He joined Seibert Media in 2014 as an Atlassian Consultant for Confluence & Jira, and since then, he has mastered almost every Atlassian certification available. He is one of the initial creators of ‘Agile Hive – SAFe in Jira and, since 2018, the Product Manager of Agile Hive. He has attended numerous SAFe training courses (SPC, LPM, ASM, SA) to constantly develop himself and took part in an LPM master class training course led by Richard Knaster. In 2019 Jan founded the software company appanvil, known for the Confluence app ‘Aura – Beautiful Formatting Macros’, which is in third place of the top-rated Confluence apps in the Atlassian Marketplace.
